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Due to a necessary system migration, the Libraries will discontinue the VCat video catalog. The effective date is June 26,
2017.

In its place, the Franklin Catalog will offer the ability to limit search results to video materials, and future development will enable you to further refine
video-related searches. These changes will advance our efforts to make Franklin a comprehensive discovery tool for materials
in Penn’s collections and a growing number of resources available through our partners.

A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistant
questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.

Set during the period of the Spanish Civil War, this romantic epic focuses on David, a political activist who joins a group
of international revolutionaries who oppose Franco's rise to power. David journeys to Spain where he meets Bianca, a fellow
rebel whose bravery and spirit inspire his affection.

In November, 1989 a group of artists in Prague successfully spearheaded the overthrow of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia
in the nonviolent "velvet revolution" ... a revolution fought through images, words and spirit. This film is the inside story
of that rebellion as told through interviews with the activists and citizens of Prague.

A struggling New York actor is kidnapped and forced to impersonate the late dictator of Parador, a Caribbean nation. The actor
gets better and better at the role, with the help of the dead leader's sultry mistress, until guerilla fighters strike, and
he wonders if it might not be a good time to move to a new role!

The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and
feminist. Woven into the story are America's great playwright, Eugene O'Neill, anarchist and feminist, Emma Goldman, Bolshevik
leader, Gregory Zinoviev and other notable figures whose lives were shaken by the Russian Revolution.

An astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation. This powerful program takes a remarkable first-hand look at China's
tumultuous history, examining its social, political and cultural upheaval through eyewitness accounts, rare archival film
footage and insightful commentary.

Documentary on the fate of Allende's Popular Unity government filmed throughout Chile from February to September 1973. Shows
the campaign strategies of the two groups fighting for control of Congress and reactions of voters before and after the election.
Also shows effects on society after the election--strikes, riots, etc.

In 1932 the army and "citizen militias" in El Salvador brutally crushed an uprising of peasants in western El Salvador, killing
10,000 people. Survivors share their harrowing memories, many for the first time. The trauma resonated through six decades
of military rule, until the 1992 peace accords ended a brutal, 12-year civil war. The film is based ...

Tells the story of black South African freedom music and the central role it played against apartheid. Specifically considers
the music that sustained and galvanized blacks for more than 40 years. Focuses on the struggle's spiritural dimension named
for the Xhosa word for "power". An uplifting story of human courage, resolve and triumph.

Dramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary Patrice Lumumba who led his country to independence from Belgium in 1960.
He served as the first elected prime minister, was ousted from office, and later assassinated.

Oral history of the Mexican Revolution and the supporters of Emiliano Zapata, as told by the elderly veterans of the Revolution,
as well as their reflections on the failure of the Revolution and subsequesnt Mexican government to prevent the disaster facing
the Mexican countryside today.